Collectivism’s Many Masks And The Cost Of Looking Away

A joke about paper straws turns into a blunt thesis: rules only matter when someone is willing and able to enforce them. From there, we pull a thread through geopolitics, policy, and personal responsibility, asking what happens when international law becomes a suggestion and why moral agency can’t be outsourced to titles or uniforms.

We unpack a week where Iran’s deterrence crumbled, Venezuela opened a door, and the Strait of Hormuz became an economic lever as powerful as a missile. Energy insurance, naval escorts, and targeted strikes reveal how enforcement shapes markets as much as headlines do. China takes a reputational hit as its air defenses underperform and Taiwan quietly surpasses the PRC in U.S. imports, a supply chain pivot fueled by semiconductors and tariffs. The market’s calm isn’t confusion; it’s a read on capacity, logistics, and intent.

At home, the theme repeats. DHS finally targets the engine of illegal immigration—employers—by scrutinizing I-9s and identity fraud. The SBA yanks billions in pandemic-era grift and boots noncompliant 8(a) firms. On Capitol Hill, a push to expose hush payouts for harassment meets the usual tripwire: committee purgatory. And in Texas, Cornyn vs Paxton forces a strategic question: do you trade purity for passage of reforms like a Save America Act, or hold the line and risk losing the levers you need right now?

Threaded through it all is a first principle: your soul is in your keeping. Orders don’t absolve bad choices, whether on a battlefield, a city block, or a Senate floor. We talk Bukele’s exception and where rights collide, the cost of looking away when regimes crush women and dissenters, and the oldest conflict of all—collectivism in a dozen disguises versus the dignity of the individual and the family. Technology and AI won’t decide the future; the moral code we embed in institutions will.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Live Banter

SPEAKER_16 0:45

We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those little movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another percent of the peasants perspective. We got it right today, Ron. People are gonna think we're AI. Do you know we had a comment on YouTube like two months ago where someone goes, I thought this was a real show. It's AI. What the heck are you talking about? Like, this is the most not AI show there is out there. We're still broadcasting like it's five years ago, man.

SPEAKER_26 1:21

Well, don't get carried away. We'll make a mistake.

SPEAKER_16 1:24

Yeah, just to give us a minute. All right, guys, I know why you're all here. Welcome. Uh Pray the Rosary Daily. You were first. Holy cow, amazing. Happy Thursday. Carl Leets, good morning. John Attackis, good morning, and Pony Boy, good morning. I think all time Pony Boy still has the top for being first.

SPEAKER_26 1:41

For sure.

Simultaneous Sip And Straw Riff

SPEAKER_16 1:42

Yeah, I think people are gonna have to work pretty hard to beat Pony Boy to the first. So, and every now and then Weed and Boy shows up. So between one or the other. In the beginning, it was Weed and Boys. Anyways, welcome. Good morning, you guys. Thank you so much for joining us. Reason 411, welcome, welcome. Thank you so much. Very fun. Okay, guys, I know why you're here. I know why you show up early. You're here for the simultaneous sip. All you need is a cup or a mug, a glass, a tankard, a chalice or a stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip. And it starts right now.

SPEAKER_30 2:27

Has anybody ever tried those paper straws? They're not working so good. Has anybody ever tried sushi? The new sorts made out of paper, right? It disintegrates as you're drinking. If you have a nice fire like this side, this would have no chance. By the time you get finished, the straw is totally disintegrated. Does anybody walk around with a plastic straw? Because it's not bad. You know, you whip it out, boom, boom. You never had to do that. So they want to ban straws. They said, What about the cart? What about the plate? What about the knives and the spoons and the plastic? Well, they're okay, but the straws we gotta ban.

Seinfeld-Trump Bit And Show Setup

SPEAKER_16 3:08

Oh, that's our president, ladies and gentlemen. He's as funny as Ronald Reagan ever was. He's gonna take over for Seinfeld. Someone that was the post there. It was uh, well, that wasn't a post, that's a ripped video I've got, but the uh post I got it from said, You can put any of Trump's speech behind Seinfeld, and it makes it a comedy show. I was like, I can't, that's pretty fun. Erasure, it's a good morning in Boise. Welcome, welcome. All right, you guys, lots of stuff going on today. And uh, I wanted to play this. This was Mark Carney, he gave this little speech. He's big mad. He's big mad because the rules-based order is not being enforced. International law, nobody's enforcing international law these days.

Mark Carney Clip And Rules-Based Order

SPEAKER_17 3:47

We support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security. Because Canada is taking the world as it is, uh passively waiting for a world we wish to be. We do, however, take this position with regret because the current conflict is another example of the failure of the international border. Despite decades of UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran's nuclear threat remains. Canada reaffirms that international law binds all belligerents. We condemn the strikes carried out by Iran on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the Middle East. We implore all parties, including the United States and Israel, to respect the rules of international engagement. Canada calls for a rapid de-escalation of hostilities and is prepared to assist in achieving this goal. Oh, good.

SPEAKER_16 5:15

We support Canada's such a good ally lately. All right, guys. I had a friend in prison who used to always bark about international law and they're violating international law, blah, blah, blah. And I was always like, dude, dude, stop, stop, stop. Who's enforcing it?

SPEAKER_26 5:33

Did he say A after that?

SPEAKER_16 5:36

A, no. I was like, who enforces international law? So I got I got right here a little cartoon. Okay, this is this is a real cartoon. So take a look at it, Ron. Go ahead and flip it on the screen here. So you're violating international law, says one leader to another as he's beating up on someone, right? Well, he says, Why don't you call the world police? He goes, I am. And then ring, ring, ring, and Ron, who's answering?

SPEAKER_25 6:00

Oops, circles.

SPEAKER_16 6:02

Yeah. So the caption on this from the poster uh SK cartoon says, Without meaningful enforcement, so-called international law is really just a suggestion. And the U.S. is the only real enforcement force on the world stage. That is very much the case, right? International law, if people follow it voluntarily, the quote unquote rules-based order, that's great. But when someone violates it, what do you do? So we hear things like Canada has broken every agreement they've ever made. Oh, really? Why don't you take them to court? I don't know. Why don't you take them to international court? You can hear a pin drop. And they're gonna do what? You know what they mean? Nothing. Right? Rules are only rules if they can be enforced. In the United States, what happened?

SPEAKER_25 6:48

I don't know.

SPEAKER_16 6:51

All right, guys, we're going through a minor okay. It looks like it was just a momentary lapse there. We still streaming and everything.

SPEAKER_25 6:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 6:58

All right, we blacked out for a second. It is what it is. Okay, so what was I mid-sentence saying?

SPEAKER_26 7:06

Uh something about international law.

Who Enforces International Law

SPEAKER_16 7:08

International law. Okay, so international law, right? China breaks the law. Okay, so take them to court. And nothing happens, right? Rules are only as good as they are to be enforced. And I say this all the time. What's the purpose of the United States Navy? To protect the trade routes from the pirates. That's like the whole purpose of it, right? What's our national defense? No, it's not. It's to make sure stuff gets from overseas to us. Yeah. Okay. And it's to enforce the contracts. Otherwise, it's gone. Pirates are gonna take it. Okay. And if enough pirates get together, they become a new hegemonic power. This has happened time and time again in in life. Now, last night at 1776 live.us, we had a really interesting discussion. And I saw this clip. It's comes out, I think this comes out of uh a movie about the uh one of the rebellions in England. Uh, it's got the character that plays Jon Snow in it. Wow, it's I can't remember. Anyways, he's playing chess with someone who's kind of representing a you know a moral figure here, he's got a mask on. And it's a very short clip, but I want you to listen to it. It's really, really important to understand this, okay? When it comes to power and it comes to governments and things like that, you will be told to do something by someone who has superior force, right? This is the whole point of government. They have a monopoly on power, ideally so that they can stop criminals, right? But we allow them to muscle up like the criminal muscles up and and beat them. However, just because someone with authority tells you to do something does not mean that it's okay to do. When you cross the moral line, right, the line of where God becomes your judge, this is how this is how this this clip right here is perfect.

SPEAKER_29 8:53

Your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to claim you be kings or men of power, when you stand before God, you cannot say what I was told by others to do thus.

SPEAKER_20 9:06

Or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Your soul Right.

SPEAKER_16 9:13

When you stand before God, you cannot say, Well, a king told me to do it. Well, the law told me to do it, well, the police officer told me to do it, well the president told me to do it. Right? When you do evil, you choose. And but what's evil, Ron? What's evil? Is taking out criminals evil? Is going after bad people evil? What if it caused suffering on the part of the criminal? Is that evil? Should we, you know, what should we do about that? Where is my mouse? There we go. What should we do about it? Um when you see evil, should you intervene? Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure. But what what about what about international law, Ron? What if evil's happening in a sovereign country? What if evil's happening and you're profiting from it?

SPEAKER_26 9:56

I'm gonna let more uh smarter people figure that part out, but I'm not gonna just sit around and wait for them to talk it out.

SPEAKER_16 10:04

You'd think, right? But a lot of people do. A lot of people do, because they don't believe in a North Star. They don't have a moral compass of right or wrong, they don't believe their soul will be judged.

SPEAKER_26 10:14

Well, a lot of times, by the time you get around to talking it out, the moment's gone. You gotta strike while the hammer's hot, you know?

Moral Agency Over Orders And Authority

SPEAKER_16 10:19

Gotta go. Sometimes, yeah. So we have an example in recent history from a country that in a very, very short period of time turned itself around from being a crime-ridden hellhole to being one of the safest places on the planet. And the leader of this country made a really clear point. He made a really clear point to the world when he did this because he had to crack down. He had to break the law. In fact, down in El Salvador, I'm talking about Bukele, they had to have the great exception, the exception. What was the exception? To the Constitution. Because the Constitution had created a blockade for them to have a to to do virtue, to do the right thing.

SPEAKER_23 10:57

But what about the human right of a woman not to be raped? I mean, what what about the human right of kids to, you know, to to to play or to be free or to you know go to the park? And what about the human right to live? Right? And but no, they were they were worried about the human rights of the of the killers.

SPEAKER_26 11:20

Go ahead. He's talking about the human rights of the virtuous things.

SPEAKER_16 11:24

He's talking yes, not the human rights of MS-13. Right? He's like, You guys are so concerned about due process for people that have already proven that they're killers. For people that have already proven that they're oppressive, that they're saint worshippers, right? I expect your right to believe in whatever you want. But you sacrifice a kid to your God, we're done. Right? I have to now intervene. I have to do something because God will hold me accountable for not having done something. This is where we now have to become our own moral conscience as a as an individual and as a family, as a state, as a nation. We have to have a moral compass. Okay.

SPEAKER_26 12:01

And we can debate sometimes the inaction while you want to talk it out is is part of the problem.

SPEAKER_16 12:08

Yeah. And it's kind of one of those two wrongs don't make a right, right? So we have to be careful about all of this stuff. Hey, we want to help the poor, but not by stealing from somebody else. Right. You know what I mean? That doesn't make it right. I'm going to show you a little video here. This is a propaganda video. And the the thing on here says the path to freedom. I watched this video and I almost was like, how can I fit this in? Because it's a powerful video here. Okay. When we talk about a people that are oppressed and what's the right thing to do, I'm not, you know, I second George Washington and the founding fathers. Actually, I don't even think George Washington said this. I think it was Jefferson. We don't want to go around the world looking for dragons to slay. Right? That's not our purpose. But sometimes the dragon comes to your doorstep. Sometimes the dragon is in its lair and it's sending out its demonic demons to cause havoc around the world and it oppresses its people. Watch this video here and tell me if you don't understand where our moral compass should be in all of this. There's a line that we can't cross. But we've crossed it.

Bukele, Exceptions, And Human Rights Tradeoffs

SPEAKER_32 13:18

Do you think she'll do it? You can do it. Now it's your turn.

SPEAKER_27 13:36

Thank you.

SPEAKER_16 13:42

I gotta say something.

SPEAKER_26 13:44

You know, this is exactly what me and my wife were talking about last night.

SPEAKER_16 13:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_26 13:49

We were talking about the oppression of the women over there.

SPEAKER_16 13:52

Yeah. And and at what point do you do something? Do we run around the world trying to free every woman in a burqa? No.

SPEAKER_26 13:59

No.

SPEAKER_16 13:59

But we're talking about Iran. Right. And it it's notable to look at the two women running, the woman in the American outfit and the woman in the Jewish outfit. Both of those cultures originally, America, women didn't vote. Okay. I wouldn't say they were repressed, but you know, they were property to a certain degree. And it and the Judas faith is the same thing. Go read the Old Testament. Okay. But they changed their culture. They changed their culture to where women have equal rights to men. And I know in my circles, men respect the opinion of women. You know what I mean? And yeah.

SPEAKER_26 14:39

I I think we're we're it's kind of funny that we're even talking about this like it's uh somehow, you know, on we're on some fringe.

SPEAKER_16 14:47

Yeah, we're so fringe. We talk to human beings like we're all the same. I know. But it is an interesting thing to think there, right? What about a right the rights of all those women? You know, one of the things that I've seen a lot of Iranians saying is you just liberated 46 million women. Like, yeah, there's 90 million people in that country, but and the men, they do what they need to do. But the women, they don't have any choices in the matter over there. None whatsoever. Right? It's pretty incredible. Now, here's the thing when we talk about international law, and well, the policeman finally showed up. You know, the whole world's been calling 911 for 47 years, and the police finally showed up. Okay. This is Venezuela. This was yesterday. This is Doug Bergham, the Secretary of the Interior. He's in charge or uh Department of the Interior, yes. He's in charge of oil leases. Okay, so the Department of Interior is the oil guy. He was down in Venezuela. Pero igualmente, I'll president Logan. Is the new president of Venezuela, the butcher herself. Okay, the butcher herself. However, Venezuela has changed in a matter of a month, month and a half. It's like a different country down there. They've got oil revenue that's legitimate. Okay. They're they've released all their prisoners. Trump put out a social saying Dulcie Rodriguez has been doing Dulcie Rodriguez has been doing a really good job. That she's following along. She's taking the American lead. Hold on. I thought we were down there just stealing all their oil. Apparently not. Here she is sitting with Doug Bergum in a little meeting. Not a lot here as far as context, but she speaks good English.

SPEAKER_27 16:28

Maybe.

SPEAKER_16 16:35

But, anyways, this this right here, you guys, there will be a time probably in Trump's presidency where he goes down to Venezuela. I wouldn't be surprised if he makes his way to Cuba. Things can change quickly when you take out the bad people. What about the human rights of the Venezuelans?

SPEAKER_26 16:53

Well, it also sometimes things aren't what they seem. You know, when the uh the the local media is telling you one thing, but things are something else.

Iran, Venezuela, And Realpolitik

SPEAKER_16 17:04

So the question, right, in Venezuela, if you can take one man out and change that whole nation in a mop. Now I'm not saying there's not problems. I'm not saying there won't be problems. We all have problems. But holy cow, you just liberated a lot of people. And you can't do it. You just gave them the opportunity to vote again. And you did it without big scale war. You did it without big scale war. So who's the real enemy, right? Do you know what I do? Your soul will be judged by God. So whether Kings or UN or some authority figure tells you one thing, it doesn't make it right, right? So this is an old clip from Charlie Kirk debating a socialist, a communist, or whatever you want to call it. We're gonna watch this because this is what we're up against, right? At what point do we have to say, listen, that ideology, that thought process always leads to death? So there is a justification for me to stand up to it the moment I see it. And I'm pretty sensitive. When people start, like I've now figured out what collectivism is by its many names, right? Once you figure it out, you can't unsee it and you always know it leads to death. What about the human rights of the people who end up starving? What about the human rights who end up under these oppressive regimes?

SPEAKER_22 18:18

You're a big fan of Mao. Uh Mao's a pretty interesting character. How many people did he murder? How many people did he murder? I mean, how many people do you think he murdered? How many people did think? 45 million, more or less. And what are you getting that number from? How about the Chinese people themselves? Rough calculations of international organizations, mass graves. What do you mean, the victims of communism fund that literally puts out Nazi propaganda on a regular basis? I'm sorry, wait, the victims of communism fund is a what group? You realize in the USSR, they list Nazi war deaths as victims of propaganda. You're pro-Lenin, too? Yeah, I mean, Lenin did a lot of really great things for the USSR.

SPEAKER_16 18:55

They literally brought what was the They list Nazi war deaths as the victims of socialism because fascism is social. They were the National Socialist Party.

SPEAKER_22 19:05

What about Ukrainian famine? How is that? What about the Ukrainian famine? Like the six million people Lenin intentionally killed through forced starvation and famine? I mean, it's pretty ridiculous to frame that as intentional, right? Like, let's be real, right? There was a famine, and we can argue about the mismanagement of famines, but capitalists have mismanaged famines all the time. What is it? Like an Irish potato famine. What's a kulak? What do you think a kulak is? I know what a kulak is. You tell me. You're the person. And if they own more than it, what happened to them? And do you know when I okay. Let's No, just answer the question. I'm curious. What did happen to them? They went to a gulag. Do you believe those exist? Yeah, 100%. How many people die in the gulag? Do you know what a gulag is? No, just like more or less. I just want to know. Do you know what a gulag is? Yeah, a forced labor camp. Or it could be a forced death. You mean like the forced labor camps we have in the United States of America, which, by the way, the United States has more people in forced labor than any other country. Where? In our federal prisons? I think it's prison. I think it's a prison. They committed crime. Oh, okay. So it's about forced. They made a choice. Are you familiar with the that's a phenomenal red herring argument you made? I'm just curious. I just want to know how many people died in the gulags?

SPEAKER_16 20:13

No, no. There it is, right there, the Bukele thing. Oh, they're worried about the rights of the rapists and the murderers. Well, you have forced labor in your prisons. That's not exactly how that goes. And listen, I'm not here defending the federal prison system. But I have said, I got I walked out the doors. I was like, we cannot get rid of those buildings. There are people in there that should never come outside. And you made me live with them. Okay.

Collectivism vs Individualism Framework

SPEAKER_26 20:39

But on the on the other hand, you will also probably say that we don't need to have 90% um vacancy rates in the prisons. No, we don't, exactly.

SPEAKER_22 20:51

More or less. I'm just curious. How many people die in American prisons? Hold on a second. I'm just curious. Gulags, how many people died? When do we talk about the people in India that Winston Churchill killed? Why don't we talk about it? So we're not here. I'm happy to do a whole defense of the greatest man of 20th century Churchill. I'm not gonna actually do that right now. So was Alexander Solskynitsyn a liar? I don't know who that is. You're kidding me. You're a Marxist that don't know you do not know who Alexander Solskynitsyn is. He wrote a book called The Gulag Archipelago, which is a first person account. He actually was in a gulag architect. Come on.

SPEAKER_09 21:22

And you don't even know who he is.

SPEAKER_22 21:24

You know that people at work and I admitted that they just made up a lot of those numbers, right? He lived in one, my friend.

SPEAKER_16 21:31

He lived in one, my friend. See, here's the thing. We've been fighting against the same enemy really since the dawn of time. It goes by the name of collectivism. Here's a nice little graphic. I like these graphics, right? Collectivism! The world conflict of today is the same conflict that has been fought throughout mankind's history. The name change, the names change, but the essence and results remain the same. Whether it is the individual against feudalism or against communism or fascism or socialism. Or the welfare state on RAND. Right? Racism, nationalism, fascism, Marxism, communism, collectivism, all are the same dragon. All are the same dragon. And it's individualism versus that. And it's been that way since the beginning. It has been that way since the beginning. I think Donald Trump understands this clearly. He also understands that, you know, you can't go out looking for monsters to slay, but at a certain point, the monsters are at the bay. They're at our doorstep. Bill O'Reilly had a conversation with Donald Trump before we started the Iran conflict, and he gives us some good insight into Donald Trump's thinking.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

He didn't want to move. I spoke with him lengthy on the phone, and he offered the Mohs a really good deal to get out of this, to give up their nuke program and their ballistic missiles. And the United States and other countries would then rebuild their economy, help them with uh safe nuke energy. And the Mohs just basically said, blank you, we're not going to do it. So if you're president and you know there is a clear and present danger because you know that the Moals are reconstituting their nuclear program after being bombed out last June. You know that. And then the Persian people are on the uprise, you're going to do it. And you're not going to confer with Chuck Schumer before you do it. Because Chuck will Chuck will run out and tell everybody everything. And president has 60 days, 6-0, to do any kind of military action he wants under the banner of national security.

China As The “Dragon” And Tech Deterrence

SPEAKER_16 23:40

So he's got 60 days to get this done before the War Powers Act becomes a real problem. Which yesterday they voted down, right? So it didn't, they're not going to like make Trump exit in 60 days or else. It's an unconstitutional act, anyways. But either way, he's complying, and it sounds like that's the plan. They want to just get in and get rid of all their offensive capabilities. Now we know the Kurds are coming in, and this is where the fog of war starts to happen, right? You get punched, you don't know where you're going to go. So it's we got to be careful. But this is uh Peter Schweitzer, who wrote the book Clinton Cash, and he wrote the book, a bunch of other good books. Um, he's exposed a lot of politicians, and including Mitch McConnell and some of the Republicans, just how corrupt they are. Mitch McConnell, I don't, most people don't know, but his wife is from Taiwan. Her father is CCP member, big shipping company. A little fuzzy there, okay. But, anyways, Peter Schweitzer was on with uh Jesse Waters talking about the impact of the things that Trump has done so far. And this is echoes what we've said Venezuela, Iran, kind of working up the ladder to the real dragon. Who's the real dragon? Uh I'll just guess China. Red communist, literally. It's the embodiment of collectivism, cat uh collectivism, mercantilism, right? It's the embodiment of that.

SPEAKER_15 25:06

Uh, it it now means we have a chokehold uh on the strait. Um, look, assume that China wanted to move on Taiwan, right? There's a military response, but now we have a massive energy response, which is we simply don't allow any tankers to ship oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. Uh, we can do it. Uh, it might have been a little bit dicey had we not taken out the Iranians. Uh, that's roughly half of their oil, 40 to 50 percent of their oil, is now suddenly not available to them. So those are enormous uh methodologies. And look at what happens in terms of military technology, Jesse. Uh, China provided their most advanced air defense capabilities to Iran. We completely destroyed them. They didn't shoot down one American or Israeli uh plane. This is reminiscent of 1982 when the Israelis flying F-15s went up against the Syrians flying MiGs, and the Israelis beat them 81 aircraft to zero. What happened after that? They couldn't give the MiGs away. So China now has the problem that their military technology is not recognized as being up to part of the United States. That's gonna have huge implications with a whole host of other countries.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

So they lose a bunch of customers and they lose face. Now that the United States, if this mission is successful, now we have no idea how this is gonna play out. We're praying it works out. If it's successful, what kind of position does that put the United States of America with Venezuela and now Iran more in our orbit?

SPEAKER_15 26:44

Well, it means that a lot of countries in the developing world that might have been flirting with China uh don't want to flirt with them anymore because they realize that A, China can sign all the quote-unquote strategic partnerships they want, uh, but they're not going to do anything about it if their allies get in trouble. I mean, all China's done is send some scolding messages. They haven't done a single thing to stand up for their allies. Second of all, they understand that that you know this administration uh is the partner that they want to be in business with, not Beijing. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 27:18

So we've basically neutered China's uh military contracts. Everybody's like, uh, I don't want your air defense systems, they don't work at all. At all. Venezuela, loaded with them.

SPEAKER_26 27:31

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SPEAKER_16 27:33

And a pilot got shot in the leg. Okay, and then what else? Uh Iran? Any any down jets? Well, there was some friendly fire over Kuwait. That's all that's happened.

SPEAKER_26 27:44

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SPEAKER_16 27:51

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Energy, Hormuz, And Insurance Leverage

SPEAKER_25 28:05

That'd be awesome. There we go. There's one. Good one. I forced it.

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SPEAKER_16 29:01

Yes, we need we we need to get some 1775 coffee raw. I guess. Maybe not for you. Okay. So China is the real dragon here. They're the real font of collectivism. It's in the heart of man. Okay. Collectivism is in the heart of man. And so is individualism. And I believe we kind of struggle back and forth against that. But, anyways, there was something that I did not know that I found out. This is really interesting. I always assumed China was our largest trading partner, but something has shifted very recently, Ron.

Market Signals Amid Conflict

SPEAKER_38 29:34

In a really unexpected turn of events, U.S. imports from the island of Taiwan have just surpassed our imports from China. This is the first time that this has happened since at least the 1980s. According to the most recent monthly data that comes out of the Department of Commerce, in November of 2025, we imported roughly about the same amount of goods from both countries. However, by December of 2025, we imported$24.7 billion worth of goods from Taiwan and only$21.1 billion from China. Now, the implications here are huge. I mean, communist China's population is literally 58 times greater than Taiwan. Their manufacturing capacity is massive. All the contracts that China has been able to win over the last three decades is voluminous. They basically hold a monopoly on rare earth mineral processing. And yet, here we are. Now, the reason for the shift is twofold. It has to do with the tariffs as well as the position that Taiwan has built for itself through decades of hard work in the semiconductor industry. Now, on the subject of tariffs, despite both Taiwan and China getting hit with tariffs over the last year, it wasn't equal. Quote, while Trump imposed 20% reciprocal tariffs on Taiwan last year, certain products, including semiconductors, benefited from exemptions. Washington and Taipei this month finalized a trade deal to lower the general U.S. tariff on Taiwanese goods to 15%, bring billions of dollars in chip investments to the U.S., and open Taiwan's auto and farm markets to American companies. On the flip side, the White House imposed heavier duties on Chinese goods in 2025. After numerous rounds of negotiations and a meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in late October, where they firmed up a truce, the U.S. tariff rate on China was understood to be around 47%. And so that is wow.

SPEAKER_26 31:31

I mean, maybe we don't need Canada, maybe we need to annex Taiwan.

SPEAKER_16 31:36

Okay, let's let's knock the dominoes down here. So we start a trade war, pinch them. China's got a demographic problem, they have a real estate problem, they have a currency problem, and they have a trust problem.

SPEAKER_26 31:51

Well, they also have an energy problem now.

unknown 31:54

Ooh.

SPEAKER_16 31:56

They have an energy problem. Okay. They're not selling as much stuff as they used to. It's not looking good. Not looking good.

SPEAKER_26 32:03

Now, this is not really great because countries, when they start feeling like this, they start feeling like they have to react.

SPEAKER_16 32:10

Uh, Japan. Right. Japan, uh, Germany, Weimar Republic. Right. Yeah. You push them into a corner, it's gonna be a problem. Which is what we anticipated from Iran. We pushed them into a corner.

SPEAKER_08 32:25

President Trump gave the order for Treasury to exert a maximum pressure campaign on Iran. I said in a speech at the Economic Club of New York in March that I predicted that the Iranian currency uh would collapse, that we would see the economy collapse thanks to this maximum pressure. So we have been softening the uh softening up the economy and preparing the ground for what our great warriors are doing right now. So the Iranian economy was vulnerable. Uh we cut off the dollar supply into Iran. All their oil is sanctioned. We've been able to keep the funds, many of the funds out of our out of Iran. Uh one of the largest banks collapsed in December. The central bank was forced to print a huge amount of money. Uh, inflation ensued, and people took to the streets. So there was an economic crash in Iran in December, and now we have the opening to go in, and our military is taking over from the sky and from the sea.

Capitol Protest Scuffle And Astro-Turfing

SPEAKER_25 33:36

Are you Mr. Shepe Julian Onsima? Thank you for coming in. Thank you for good morning. Why are you gay?

SPEAKER_16 33:45

Okay, I was hoping I could get straight to the why are you gay part. Anytime I see a Scott Bessett clip, I'm like, why are you gay?

SPEAKER_26 33:53

I love his pose. He always looks so he looks like he's uh posing for a portrait or something.

SPEAKER_16 33:58

Uh-huh. Yeah, he's got a very straight back. Yeah. Okay.

unknown 34:04

Yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_16 34:05

Okay. So we pushed Iran into a corner. And the well the words he used was a opportunity, a window open. What was that window? Iran was about to attack us. Why? We collapsed their economy like overnight. They was a thousand percent inflation. That's what led to all the writing on the streets. Now, Pete Hexeth gave a press conference with Raisin Kane, okay, with with uh General Kane, and he was very explicit. We have the ability to win this war.

SPEAKER_14 34:36

Iran cannot outlast us. Uh, we're going to ensure through violence of action and our offensive capabilities and our defensive capabilities, as I said, that we set the tone and the tempo of this fight. Uh, that's why stories and speculation about different things that try to make it look like we're limited in what we can do. The only limits we have in this is President Trump's desire to achieve specific effects on behalf of the American people.

SPEAKER_16 35:03

We want to win. We entered it to win. We will outlast them. And because we've now established air superiority there, they're using dumb bombs. Well, they're smart bombs, but they're gravity bombs, which we have a lot of. And we couldn't use them because they were dumb bombs. You have to be over the target. And there weren't a lot of places in the world where you could get over the target. Oh, okay. Now, pundits out there, it I listen, we don't know anything. So anybody that's out there saying, Well, we're running out of missiles. You don't know jack squad. You think the military publishes how many missiles they have? When they're low, they'll tell you they have a lot. When they're high, they'll tell you they have none, right? It's the art of war, Sun Tzu. Come on, man. 101. You don't think every general on the planet hasn't read Sun Tzu, right? Project strength when you're weak, project weakness when you're strong. Now, the United States, are we weak or strong? Again, you don't know. Okay, you have no idea. But I do know one thing. We went right into Venezuela and got their president. I do know another thing. We went right into Iran and blew their leader up. And guess what? We've lost six people.

SPEAKER_26 36:18

Yeah. And there was no hesitation.

DHS Pivot To Employer Enforcement

SPEAKER_16 36:20

So America has looked weak for 47 years. When you're strong, look weak. Negotiate. Don't be the guy. Don't throw the first punch. Right? What is this? Is the thing about people who know MMA fighters, UFC fighters, people that have black belts and taekwondo, right? They're restrained. Why? Because they know that they're not they're threatened. They know that you can't really hurt them. You can bluster, bluster, bluster. They're restrained because they know they'll win. Does that make sense? Yeah. It's very common. Super common. So America has looked weak. We're the world's police. So we just kind of do our little thing and tell China to let the traffic through and pop a few Somali pirates from time to time. You know what I mean? But the reality is, are we weak? Have we not sustained this world order for going on a decade? You know what I mean? Yeah. There are people, we're running out of tomahawk missiles. Are we? Do you know that? Are we just measured and restrained? I showed you a clip there. Where they're starting to use drones, the exact same models that Iran used, except with Starlink. Okay. Did anybody calculate that? All the people on TV that we're running out of tomahawks. And tomahawks might be like the revolver, not a really good weapon of war. You know what I mean? Like, probably not going to be making a lot of tomahawks because what's the point? They can get shot down, they're super expensive. Just use a drone, let it fly 50 feet above the air until it gets above its target. No radar will pick it up. Right. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_26 37:51

Then maybe you're only spending a million bucks instead of 50 million.

SPEAKER_16 37:54

The real threat would be if Ukraine or Russia wanted to go after us because they know how to use little$500 drones to cause with the fiber optic trail network. Yeah, exactly. Smother you in glass. I mean, Jeez. Anyways, so nobody knows anything. He goes on to uh oh, is this the right clip? We will avenge them.

SPEAKER_14 38:14

Okay, so he goes on to say this. We will avenge them. No doubt. But I liken Iran's predicament to a football team who scripted the first 20 plays of a game. The team knew what plays to run because their first few drives were scripted.

SPEAKER_16 38:33

They knew which missiles to fire, which targets to hit, when when the Ayatollah was killed, everybody knew what to do. But it started. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 38:45

But now that the game is started and the blitz is on, they don't know what plays to call, let alone how to get in the huddle and call those plays. Iran's senior leaders are dead. The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor dead, missing, or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room. Senior generals, mid-level officers, enlisted ranks, they can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive. That's not great for morale. The Iranian Air Force is no more built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated.

SBA Fraud Crackdown And 8(a) Purge

SPEAKER_16 39:36

In fact, they sunk every boat, they hit every plane. Hangers, concrete hangers, right? Real thick concrete hangers. And there were four of them lined up, and each one had a hole in it. And then there was a blast between the front and back, and it was like there's a plane in there, and they just boom right into the plane. Okay. And then now I've seen some videos where they're like, oh, Americans are wasting a million dollars on a painted uh jet on the ground or a painted helicopter. And then I saw a debunk video where it showed other angles, and it's like those were real. It's like you're just being spoofed online. Oh, we're wasting money on nothing. Yeah. Fog of war. We know very little. And also the other thing, too, is the CGI videos of this are just out of control, which is one of the reasons why I'm not really showing any clips of anything. One, I'm not super interested in the actual act of destruction, but also, you can't trust any of it, anyways. Right. But what you can trust is the geopolitical situation. So one of the things Trump said in all of this when the uh Straits of Hormos Moose were closed, and China was like, we encourage Iran to open up the straits. Iran didn't close them. They couldn't stop anybody from going in or out if they wanted to. They got no more boats, right? So, but they it was closed by Lloyd's, the insurance company in London that insures the vast majority of maritime shipping around the world.

SPEAKER_26 41:06

I wonder what they're worried about.

SPEAKER_16 41:08

Yeah, so Trump put out effective immediately, and this is from March 3rd, effective immediately. I've ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation, DFC, to provide at a very reasonable price political risk insurance and guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, especially energy traveling through the Gulf. This will be available to all shipping lines. If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible. No matter what, the United States will ensure the free flow of energy to the world. The United States economic and military might is the greatest on earth. More actions to come. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So, China, don't worry, we'll get you your energy. But now you're our client. Now you pay us. You're our client. Now you would think that all this international disruption, the brink of World War III, would cause markets to collapse. But you know, war is actually kind of good for business. So Scott Bessant addresses this. Why haven't why haven't the economy crashed? Why why are why hasn't crude crashed or you know gone through the roof? It's gone up, but it hasn't gone through the roof like some of the haters thought it would.

SPEAKER_08 42:26

Over the weekend, uh Lloyds of London uh nullified the insurance. So U.S. government is going to step in, and when it is appropriate and should it be needed, the the U.S. Navy will provide safe passage through the straits for the oil tankers.

SPEAKER_16 42:44

We're we're a different country announced. Huh. Oh, there was another, you know. Sometimes I get like the same clip, one's longer, one's shorter, and I grab the wrong one. He goes on to say basically, the markets see into the future, but the markets are not seeing that we're gonna lose this. So take that for what it will, what you will, okay. So moving on from Iran, but still in a related topic. There was a little incident that happened in the Capitol yesterday. Here's the incident right here. So this is this is a Marine in uniform. Came to the United States. By the way, that's a senator, Tom Sheehe, right there, that's getting in it here. That's an actual senator getting into it. Okay, so these guys are moving him.

SPEAKER_26 43:28

Damn.

Hill Hush Funds And Transparency Fight

SPEAKER_16 43:32

He doesn't even scream. That is one tough Marine. So they hauled him out of there, and you know, he was in uniform accusing the senators and United States of America for fighting for Israel. Because look at who he's married to. Do you recognize that face by any chance? You might see the the the face, you know, the the recognizable signature of Islam on this woman, but you know who she is? That's Linda Salsour. So she's an acolyte of what's his name? He's the Nation of Islam preacher. What's his name? It's not Farrakhan. Farrakhan. Lewis Farrakhan? Yeah, Louis Farrakhan. So she's she's kind of one of his right-hand gals. And uh she is a racist. Okay. She's a ideological wacko. Okay. She's like a code pink on steroids kind of person. She has led protests and all kinds of stuff. That's her husband, a Marine.

SPEAKER_26 44:30

I guess that's why I don't know who she is.

unknown 44:32

Yeah.

Cornyn vs Paxton And MAGA Math

SPEAKER_16 44:33

So this is she takes money from George Soros, takes money from every Dart group, basically every ideological NGO that opposes me, she's got something to do with it. So yeah, this wasn't just some organic, you know, some Marine wants to come protest. No, it's her husband. Clearly. So that's the problem with a lot of this stuff is you don't really know, you know, who's who and who's who's actually causing problems online when you see certain posts getting ratioed or people getting attacked. There are still active bot farms. And by the way, bot farms, because Elon Musk did this great thing where he exposes what continent your account is from. So now these bot farms in Nigeria and Indonesia and China, they're trying to relocate here in the United States. Okay, so they can be effective. So going after all of this stuff is a big, big picture. Before we get into this next part, good morning, Doug Wyatt. Good morning, peasants. Shantini, good morning later today. And Marizo, see you in a couple weeks. Oh, mom, bye. She's been at my house the last couple days. We're gonna miss you guys. I know my kids had a great time with the cousins, cousin that you brought. So thank you so much. Okay, so there's a post, a uh an article posted by Revolver News. It says this for years the system only chased illegal immigrants. Now Department of Homeland Security is reportingly going after the real engine of the crisis, the employers. Investigators are bypassing the IRS and digging directly into the illegal hiring networks. If this sticks, the immigration game could change completely. So the IRS finally got permission to assist Department of Homeland Security, identify and find illegal immigrants, but they're taking it a step further. When you get a job, you have to fill out what's called an I-9, and that is a DHS form. And that's supposed to prove that you have work eligibility. So if everybody in America is supposed to fill out an I-9, how do you have people working that are not allowed to work here? I don't know. Okay. It's because they they either cheat, commit fraud, perjury, or someone's not checking those applications, right? So now the Department of Homeland Security is going to be going straight after employers to stop the magnet that draws people in to take the risk to be illegal immigrants. For years, everyone avoided this tactic. Why? Because the UNIParty knew it would actually break the pipeline. And God knows they don't want that to happen. Now DHS is moving directly into the driver's seat. This move is big, and if and it caught the attention of several people online who follow the stuff closely. One of them was Douglas Mackey. This is a very big deal. If the DHS goes around, going around the IRS with its own investigative wing to check if employees, taxpayers, are illegal aliens. This is a significant escalation in the crackdown on illegal immigration. It's a big deal. It goes down, if it goes down as planned, it'll be a major shift in anti-illegal immigration strategy. We've always been focused on the illegals themselves, while employers, who are the real engine of ill behind illegal immigration, have been humming along. Ron, I think there's a few people we could tip. I think we know a few people who make a habit of hiring illegals, right? If employers knew the government isn't serious about enforcement, the system keeps plugging along. And that is the same story with international law and domestic law. There are only cops, there's only enforcement. A law is not a law if there's not enforcement. Okay. So if you're allowing employers to do that and not punishing them, oh sure, we lose a worker every now and then because they got a DUI, so they get deported. Well, if that illegal alien that got the DUI gets deported and he was working, DHS confirmed in a statement to the Post that I-9 inspection investigations are ongoing. The agency did not respond to questions about how many notice of suspect documents letters it has sent. The employment of illegal aliens incentivizes dangerous and illegal practices, including Social Security fraud. The department said in a statement, as we saw during a recent work site inspe operation in Nebraska, many illegal aliens use stolen social security numbers and identities to unlawfully obtain wages, health benefits, and employment authorization. Behind every stolen Social Security number uncovered in these operations is a real American. Mothers, fathers, students, and disabled workers now facing devastating financial, emotional, and legal fallout. Imagine getting a letter from the IRS saying you're back behind in taxes and you're like, but I don't I paid. They're like, well, we we show more income than what you reported. Well, that's not my social. I don't live in Nebraska. That's identity theft for you. Yep. A whole slew of American businesses have quietly been patting their bottom lines at the same way, cheap, illegal labor with no questions asked, and a week and a nod from the cruddy, crooked system that never enforces its own rules. Oh, we just want the criminals to go away, but we want the employees to stay. And what is what are they what do you always hear from people who are like, uh, newly, they're they're moly, they're weak, they're like their spine is made of wet spaghetti noodles. What do they always say? Well, these people pay taxes. That's a nod to the employers, like, just make sure you have withholdings.

SPEAKER_26 49:44

Right. Okay. Well, guess what?

SPEAKER_16 49:46

There's no money, guys. None of that money goes to anything. It doesn't go to pay off the debt, it doesn't go to social services, it's just a control mechanism. So when they say, Well, they're paying their taxes, who gives a rip? Well, who gives a rip if they're paying their taxes? The fact that you're giving them business.

SPEAKER_26 50:03

If the employee was legitimate, they would be paying taxes too. What? If the employee was legitimate, they would be paying taxes too. No, I'm saying politicians say I know, I know, I know what you're saying. Uh, that the illegals are paying taxes, so it's okay. But what I'm trying to say is if that guy was replaced with a legal employee, he's paying those taxes too. Yes. Hello? Yes.

SPEAKER_16 50:26

Yes. Every Social Security number doesn't just exist on paper. A lot of times there's a real American on the other end of that identity dealing with the financial and legal mess that follows. Even immigration attorneys are warning restaurant owners that this new wave of enforcement is likely gearing up. It's just getting worse. You can read and yeah. That, again, as far as I'm concerned, and we the peasants, because we have to live and work here, those illegal immigrants put pressure on the job market. They they take opportunities from teenagers, from retirees, from people that are down on their luck. They take a lot of those entry-level jobs and mid-level jobs, a lot of them, and they take a lot of really quality labor jobs that if AI takes all the white-collar jobs, someone's got to do the roofing.

SPEAKER_26 51:09

I think I know the answer to this question, but how many people have you turned in or sent in tips for? One. Yeah, I I think I knew that was the answer because I know the story. But how often would you really do that? I mean, I can't picture myself calling anybody to turn anybody in.

SPEAKER_16 51:26

I'm a former inmate, so snitches get stitches. So now it's been pretty much work, I wouldn't say beat out of me, but it's been worked out of me not to be a snitch.

SPEAKER_26 51:35

And I guess this is what I'm trying to say is you know, you know how you always uh get on me for projecting my goodness on other people. Uh-huh. I think this is where this kind of slides in there too. And, you know, maybe I'm not going to turn people in because it's like, uh, that's their business. It's none of my business. Just let them be. You know, what what is it hurting? I don't know. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_16 51:58

Yeah, I know what you mean. Exactly. Okay, so we're gonna we're gonna play this here. This is Kelly Loffler. She's the SBA administration director, and she is cutting off serious amounts of funding to people who have been taking these SBA loans illegally.

SPEAKER_12 52:13

I'm here in San Diego standing at an address that is registered to 14 businesses that took$2 million in pandemic era loans. Those loans haven't been paid back, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Today the SBA is announcing we're suspending 112,000 California borrowers who took potentially upwards of$9 billion. We're gonna continue to work with our federal partners to ensure accountability. By the way, I think that's more than we spend on Ukraine. Well, the buck stops here. We're not looking the other way, we're prosecuting, there's gonna be more to come.

SPEAKER_16 52:58

This is what happens with collectivism, just to bring it back around.

SPEAKER_26 53:01

When I hear these kind of numbers, you know, and then also when I hear numbers attached to um our you know voting and people campaigning it, and then you hear people like Talarico spending a hundred million dollars, and it's like, you know, what are we doing in this country where we throw around so much money where we could be solving so many problems?

SPEAKER_16 53:24

Ron, don't you know the problem is the greed of the trillionaires, right?

SPEAKER_26 53:28

I I know.

SPEAKER_16 53:28

No, seriously though, nine billion dollars in California,$19 billion. Let's just do a little math here, okay? I know. So we've got if we want to be a real communist country, right? So we got nine billion, so that's so there's nine million, one, two, three. So now I'm got nine billion plus nineteen billion. Right. Okay, so gotta make sure I get enough zeros. So that equals two point eight or uh twenty uh twenty-seven, twenty-eight to the tenth power or something, divided by uh there's about what 175 million taxpayers in America?

SPEAKER_26 54:03

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_16 54:04

Okay, divided by 175 million equals that doesn't seem right. We could all get 160 bucks. No, that doesn't seem right.

SPEAKER_26 54:17

No, that's not right.

Why An Endorsement Might Be Tactical

SPEAKER_16 54:18

When I got out to the extent, I probably missed a couple zeros on one of those. Ron, you can do the math on there. Uh uh 1776 live PMA reminds people you can join us tonight on Ignite at 4 30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, and you can register. And she put the link right there in the chat. Thank you so much for doing that. So 1776 live.us forward slash ignite registrar. So you're gonna make a little chart there to figure that out while you're doing that.

SPEAKER_26 54:42

Okay, so I'm gonna do here.

SPEAKER_16 54:44

She also went on the post before this administration, the program 8A program, the the 8A program was known as an easy target, and it was abused by shady firms who won federal contracts but passed work-off to other larger firms or kickbacks. So, what was going on there was you would be like a female-owned corporation or an Indian-owned corporation or a minority-owned corporation, and that would get you preferential bidding when you would bid on these government contracts. So they'd get these massive contracts, and then they would give them to the big firms that didn't qualify for those bids, and they'd just take a cut off the top. So you had a lot of literally shell corporations that were quote unquote minority-owned that were getting massive contracts and just pushing them out. To root out all those bad actors, we asked all 4,388A firms to submit three years' worth of financial documents to review. When you get those loans, you tell them that they can review your finances anytime you want. And today we took action to fully terminate 620 who refuse to comply. Any business that refuses to show their books will not be allowed to do business with the federal government. Good. Good. Because if you agree to do that, then you should show your books. What'd you come up with, Ron? You know, the numbers weren't making sense to me. How many millions? How many billions? 9 billion in California, 19 billion in Minnesota.

SPEAKER_26 55:57

So about 30? Yeah. Yeah, it's 150 bucks a person.

SPEAKER_16 56:01

150 bucks.

SPEAKER_26 56:02

But uh what was the see?

SPEAKER_16 56:05

This is why redistribution of wealth never works. Because you never get enough.

SPEAKER_26 56:10

It works out to about$250,000 per loan, though.

SPEAKER_16 56:15

Per loan.

SPEAKER_26 56:16

Yeah, for the$120,000 loans.

SPEAKER_16 56:20

Oh yeah. That's a lot of money.

SPEAKER_26 56:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 56:22

That's a lot of money. Stolen. Stolen money. Okay. Again, there are no laws, there's only enforcement. There's something that happened, the um, something that happened yesterday. It's kind of interesting. A Department of Justice attorney was arrested in DC. So this particular Department of Justice guy is known to be gay, and he was walking around January 6th. So this was the pre-January 6th rally, one of them. And uh he was out in the crowd. He's from Maryland. He's a U.S. attorney for DC. Okay. And he was arrested in an FBI raid for having child pornography.

SPEAKER_27 56:57

Oh.

SPEAKER_16 56:58

Well, there's our nice DOJ attorney. Would you look at that guy and think that he's some like high-powered DOJ attorney vested with the authority of the executive branch?

SPEAKER_25 57:06

No.

Trade Shift To Taiwan And China’s Headwinds

SPEAKER_16 57:07

It's pretty stunning, huh? Yeah. Anyways, again, you know, there's just come some authority figure says to do it isn't gonna work when you stand in the judgment seat before God. Okay, because that might be your authority figure. Here's some other authority figures that are showing their true colors. Yesterday there was a privilege resolution that was voted on, and they wanted to they just like we had release the Epstein files, expose the president, right? Privileged resolution. Basically, they brought it straight to the floor for a vote. Okay. Okay, and then you can either vote on it or you send it back to committee for markups, and that's where things go to die. So Lauren Boebert, along with Nancy Mace and Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burkchart and a whole bunch of other stalwarts, right, supported this resolution. Listen, we want to know who's been sexually harassed, who's been assaulted, and who's got the hush money, who's been paid. Because they've there's a I can't remember the dollar amount, it's a large amount of money that has been paid from Congress to staffers and others that were sexually assaulted, harassed, and or abused by members of Congress. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_39 58:13

So on one hand, everybody wants the Epstein files released, but when it comes to themselves, I am absolutely disgusted that we couldn't even get to 50 members of Congress who want immediate transparency. Don't we all campaign on transparency? Don't we all go out and tell the American voters that we are leaders and that we are going to get justice for them, that we are going to do right by them? And then we hire their daughters to come work for us. And uh your tax dollars, millions and millions of dollars has been used in this slush fund as hush money to silence victims who have been sexually harassed, sexually abused by members of Congress. And then Congress is going to do exactly what it does best: investigate itself. And we know that none of that ever goes anywhere. The American people demand transparency. And this doesn't just pertain to a ranch in in Arizona or New Mexico or an island down in the Virgin Islands. This is happening right here in our nation's capital. And we should be held to the highest standards. And to every member who voted to send this to committee where you know this was sent to die on the House floor just moments ago. I hope you have a darn good reason to tell your constituents why you were not going to stand up for the victims. And I'm glad that we are doing something about it here in the Oversight Committee. I'm glad that this motion was made here so we actually have another chance at transparency. But again, these are your tax dollars. These are your tax dollars that were used to silence victims. They have been settled with victims. And to the members who voted against this, go home and tell your daughters what you did today. Go home and tell your daughters what happens in the workplace, no matter where it is, in your hometown, in your nation's capital, and tell them what you did to help continue to cover up decades of corruption. I am absolutely in favor of this motion.

“Papa Trump,” Family, And First Principles

SPEAKER_16 1:00:19

Yeah. Now when uh the Democrats or the Biden administration made a mistake when they put Gary Santos in prison. Okay, because any any thought that he uh did I say Gary Santos? George Santos. George Santos in prison. Because any thought that he was gonna stay quiet was gone. You know what he exposed on the Tucker Carlson podcast and others? They have a they have an underground chamber in the Capitol with no cameras, and that's where they go to do their sex and orgy parties. Oh he says, Oh, yeah, they'll invite you down to there. It's like, and then it was why are there no cameras down here? Because this is where all the assaulting happens, and they're like, we don't want cameras down here, we gotta have some private places. That's in our capital. That's happening. Yeah, yeah. Now is that part of the tour? Huh? Is that part of the tour? There's other things too, right? I mean, you can yeah, it's it's bad stuff. Now, it's it's not just limited to Congress, okay? And it's not just limited to the men. There's also women who take advantage of their power, or maybe it's not taking advantage of their power, but it does create kind of some issues. Um, Christy Noam has a little bit of a problem with a advisor named Corey Lewandowski official.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:33

So, Secretary Gnome, at any time during your tenure as director of Department of Homeland Security, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?

SPEAKER_07 1:01:45

Mr. Chairman, I am shocked that we're going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today. Reclaiming the ma'am, one thing that I would tell you is that he an appropriate answer could be no. As a special government employee who works for the White House, there are thousands of them in the federal government.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:02

So reclaiming is an advisory question. It is okay for you to have no authority to question. Um, it is also a real question. So, what I would say you should be able to answer what we do at the Department of Homeland every single without any hesitation, every single day is to protect the decisions you or any federal official is sleeping with their subordinate. That should have the easiest you should be wanting to answer that question because it is not about your fences that you have brought up. It is about your judgment, that kind of garbage. It's about reclaiming my time so that I too might recognize time belongs to the gentlelady from California, but it'd be nice if you would let her respond. I will. I want to let you know it is about your judgment and decision making. It is about the 260,000 employees that work under you that want to make sure that you are giving information and making decisions clearly. It is about conflict of interest, it is about a national security risk. Department of Homeland Security was created right after 9-11 to protect the homeland. And DHS has circulated an internal bulletin to law enforcement partners warning that the conflict of the war we're in could inspire loan actors or small-scale cyber activity inside the United States, according to a memo obtained by ABC News. So American lives are at risk. The people who work for you are at risk. And they want to know that the person at the top you are making decisions clearly without any sort of cloudiness. And that they're your decisions because you're the secretary who was confirmed. That's what this is about.

Private Teaser: Deep State Firings And AI Lies

SPEAKER_16 1:03:52

Saving the lives of Americans. Unfortunately, she voted against exposing Congress for some of the same behavior. Now, this relationship between Christy Noam and Cory Lewandowski is like five years long. It's not a new thing. Okay, like this is not a new thing. In fact, I was actually a little bit surprised that she got a nomination at all because of this fact.

SPEAKER_27 1:04:15

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_16 1:04:15

And then that Corey Lewandowski became a special government employee that tags along with her everywhere. It's a little weird. Okay, it's a little weird. Tim Burkhart says this, and I agree with him. Okay, after that vote yesterday.

SPEAKER_24 1:04:32

Hey everybody, Tim Burch. The House just did the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. We just voted to cover up sexual harassment of employees by members, if you can believe that. I got the sponsor right here with me, got Boebert. Y'all tell them what happened.

SPEAKER_37 1:04:47

It's shameful. They voted against my resolution. Uh that would reveal members of Congress who sexually harass employees on the hill, women on the hill in the campaigns, lobbyists, etc. Uh, shameful. So I don't like to.

SPEAKER_24 1:05:01

They sent it to the ethics committee. So a bunch of congressmen are going to investigate.

SPEAKER_39 1:05:05

So let it go get hidden, right? Yeah, this is exactly where bills go to die. So her privilege resolution is being sent to the ethics committee for members of Congress to investigate themselves. And remember, this is your tax dollars that were used in tax communities.

SPEAKER_24 1:05:20

How many millions are in tax bankers? I said there's millions.

SPEAKER_37 1:05:24

Some years there's like four or five million. I went to a slush fund that paid for members of Congress with your tax dollars to allow them to go sexual harass people on the else. And then the second thing is I want to say is I don't want to hear another word about abstinent or obstacle victims by a single person, Republican or Democrat, that voted against revealing sexual harassment. Let's get that list.

SPEAKER_24 1:05:44

How many people? Forty nine of us voted voted to to make it public, right?

SPEAKER_39 1:05:50

Forty nine or something and and this is here all the time. We are actually standing for victims. And we just saw with Tony Gonzalez, his staffer, who killed herself. Lit herself on fire. The worst way to die. And uh and this was part of the same fund that is is being covered up. Did he pay her? Maybe she never got a check. You'll never know to have a light.

SPEAKER_24 1:06:12

You'll never know. Anyway, we need transparency. Thank y'all for sending me here.

SPEAKER_16 1:06:16

So there's a guy on MS now named Joe Scarborough that had an intern die in his office late one night. That allegedly there was some funny relationship there. He even joked about, well, she was gonna talk, so I had to kill her on the Howard Stern radio show later. Yeah, this is this is Trump has talked about this. Hey, wow, Joe Scarborough. Do you want me to talk about that thing? Right? Talks about him being a murderer. That's Trump saying that. He's on TV. Okay, Tony Gonzalez. He has a sexual relationship with his intern and or his staffer. They have the text messages, they're all out there. And yesterday, for the first time on the Joe Pag show, he admitted to it for the first time. He admitted to the affair. And she did. She went and killed herself over it. And that's she told people like basically, he's got power. What am I gonna do here? It's gonna be covered up like it was horrible. Okay. Now, I posted this, and uh, this is a this is a video of us I have been with Tim Burkhart, right? We need to get rid of all of them. This is back in the day, and he was having his little speech here, and he goes, Whoever I read the name of must chant the slogan and leave the hall immediately. He starts shouting off names, and of course, you know, people get up and everybody's walking out to the back, and then after he's done sending everybody out, one guy stands up and goes, Me, I'm on the list, and Eddie's like, say the chant and walk out back, takes another puff of his cigar. Yeah, and then as soon as everybody that he calls their name, look at the reaction of the crowd.

SPEAKER_26 1:07:58

Oh, yeah. All the people that didn't have their names called, they're all like, Oh, yeah, but that's what we need.

SPEAKER_16 1:08:10

So my comment was this I was really hoping the State of the Union would go like this maybe next year.

unknown 1:08:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:08:17

So, you know, we've got problems. There's problems in the capital city. Again, two wrongs don't ever make a right, right? We just want to be good people. And nobody cares. We shouldn't care what you do in your bedroom. But when it spills out, when it affects your work, and when you're in a position of authority and governance, it matters. Now, we just had the primary in Texas and a handful of other states around the country. And there's this woman right here, Matt Van Swole posts this. He's from North Carolina. La Keisha Alston, the woman running for election as a Republican in North Carolina's Senate District 22, in full hijab. This is the picture that she took for her for her campaign, and was revealed to actually be a lifelong Democrat, ran completely unopposed, and is now the GOP candidate, North Carolina. She ran unopposed as a Democrat, claiming Republican, and now she'd be on the ballot unopposed in the general election, which means there's a senator for North Carolina, just so you guys can see her picture. That's what we're getting. Awesome. Awesome.

SPEAKER_27 1:09:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:09:23

Okay. Addressing the primary in Texas, Donald Trump posted a truth that says this the Republican primary race for the United States Senate of the great state of Texas, a state I love, and won three times in record numbers, the highest vote ever by far. Okay. Now, the the Senate campaign was run between John Cornyn, the incumbent, and Ken Paxon, the current attorney general of Texas. Ken Paxson, I think it was 2.5 or 4.5 million he spent on his campaign, and he came within 20,000 votes of beating the incumbent Ken uh Cornyn, who the GOP spent a hundred million dollars on.

SPEAKER_26 1:10:00

Oh, again, the money.

SPEAKER_16 1:10:02

Yeah. Okay. Cannot, for the good of the party and our country itself, be allowed to go on any longer because it's a bitter feud between Republicans. It must stop now. We have an easy-to-beat radical left opponent, and we have to totally focus on putting him away quickly and decisively. Both John and Ken ran great races, but not good enough. Now this one must be perfect. My endorsement within the Republican Party has been virtually insurmountable. It is such an honor to realize that they say that almost everyone I endorse wins. And my and wins by a lot, especially in Texas. I will be making my endorsement soon, and I will be asking the candidate that I don't endorse to immediately drop out of the race. Is that fair? We must win in November. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. So Donald J. Trump basically is going to pick between Cornyn, the incumbent, and Paxson, the AG, as to who he's going to endorse.

SPEAKER_26 1:10:58

No, I don't think it's fair necessarily, but it is the smart path forward. And if these guys are going to be smart about it, they're going to listen to him.

SPEAKER_16 1:11:09

Now, all the buzz on the street from anybody who knows anything thinks that Donald Trump is going to endorse John Cornyn. And MAGA is like, no, this is worse than bombing Iran. There was a poll released yesterday by Fox News amongst the quote-unquote self-identified MAGA base. Trump has 97% approval. So it's not going to upset his base. Trump could literally go to Main Street, shoot someone in the head, and we'd be like, they probably deserved it. It's getting pretty silly at this point. So, anyways, this is an this is a um compilation reel of John Cornyn. So we're going to talk about John Cornyn, and then we're going to talk about the political math here between for this endorsement. Because there's the obvious endorse Ken Paxson. Duh. He's a MAGA Republican. Wait, way more than Cornyn, right?

SPEAKER_26 1:11:57

So we want to try to get our eyes open to see what we're doing here.

SPEAKER_16 1:11:59

We want to get our eyes open because probably Trump's going to endorse Cornyn and everybody's going to lose their mind. But there might be an upside.

SPEAKER_18 1:12:07

I fully expect, unless there's some surprise that none of us know anything about right now, that uh Joe Biden will be the next president.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:15

Strong words from U.S. Senator John Corden out of Texas. The Republican says former President Donald Trump can't win the 2024 general election for president. He also says the GOP needs to find a candidate who actually can. This is all in a call with Texas reporters. Cornyn saying, I think President Trump's time is passed him by. And he adds, I don't think President Trump understands that when you run in a general election, you've got to appeal to voters beyond your base.

SPEAKER_18 1:12:41

Mr. President, I rise today to mark an important milestone for our friend Senator Mitch McConnell. Senator McConnell's done it the old-fashioned way. He earned it. He earned this role as our leader and the respect certainly that goes along with it. But more than that, he's a rare example of what a senator ought to be. So thank you, Senator McConnell, for your example. Thank you for your mentorship and for your friendship.

SPEAKER_20 1:13:08

Just a few weeks into our partnership as leader in whip, John presented me with a birthday gift. He framed and autographed a picture of ourselves. Just an ordinary, not particularly glamorous shot of the two of us.

SPEAKER_18 1:13:21

And I've passed more legislation, more bipartisan legislation than any other member of the Senate. It's because I reach out to people like Kirsten Cinema from Arizona, uh, even Mark Warner from uh Virginia.

SPEAKER_20 1:13:36

And then there was his handwritten message. Happy birthday, Mitch. I've got your back. And how fortunate I've been to be reminded every single day since the John Cornyn meant exactly what he said.

SPEAKER_28 1:13:49

I want to bring this up as well. Liz Cheney, you'd be hard to find somebody more conservative in Congress than Liz Cheney. Perpetuating the big lie is an attack on the core of our constitutional republic. Is she right?

SPEAKER_18 1:14:00

Well, I believe Joe Biden won the election, and uh President Trump had about 60 different lawsuits uh that were unsuccessful in changing the outcome. Uh but uh there's no question in my mind about the outcome of uh the last election.

SPEAKER_20 1:14:14

Thank you for making all of us look better than any of us deserve. Thank you for always having all of our box.

SPEAKER_18 1:14:21

And we should not dictate from Washington, D.C. what sort of weapons they can get access to. We should let them make the decision and provide everything they need in order to defend themselves and their country and defeat Vladimir Putin.

SPEAKER_40 1:14:38

Prosecutors across the country are refusing to enforce laws that we already have. So if you're the United States Senator, if you're John Cornyn from Texas, supposedly free state of Texas, you'd probably want to do something about that. But no, John Corner has decided to take guns from lawful gun owners. And if there's one reason you vote Republican, it's to prevent that. So it's not surprising that John Cornyn is very unpopular with Republican voters. Watch his reception today at the Texas Republican convention. Listen for the booze.

SPEAKER_39 1:15:16

All because of Corny's role leading bipartisan talks on gun reform.

SPEAKER_28 1:15:20

You'd think the January sixth attack on the Capitol would have happened uh without the influence of Donald Trump claiming election fraud.

SPEAKER_18 1:15:26

Uh there's been appropriate uh investigations by the FBI and the Department of Justice, a number of convictions, and I think that's the way that uh we deter this in the in the future. Senator, what's your biggest concern for Texas right now, and what are you pushing forward to deal with it? I've been encouraging everybody to do what I've done, which is to get vaccinated. And uh to me that is the uh a much better solution than uh getting the virus. Um, but as I said, uh my advice to anybody who will listen, um, and for anybody I care about is to get vaccinated, take advantage of that. Uh that's the best thing you can do for yourself and your family and your future.

SPEAKER_20 1:16:06

I'm a Republican, man. As soon as I was eligible to take the vaccine, I did it.

SPEAKER_16 1:16:14

How'd that work out for you, Mitch? Mr. I can't walk right now.

SPEAKER_26 1:16:18

Have you ever called yourself a Republican man?

unknown 1:16:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 1:16:24

So Cornyn has been this like oh man, my eyes are opened. Yeah, not really. He's the Uniparty 1000%, and he has voted against Republican interest. He's a gun grabber in Texas, yeah. He was he's also there's other clips of him. Oh, to build a border wall, we don't need a border wall from sea to shining sea, that's ridiculous. We just need better policy. We have a bill LinkedIn's got, we're gonna let 5,000 people a day in.

SPEAKER_26 1:16:50

I expected more from Texas.

SPEAKER_16 1:16:52

Yeah, exactly. Which is why the choice is obvious. If it's about policy, Paxson's the guy. There's however a little bit of a hitch in this giddy up.

SPEAKER_26 1:17:03

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_16 1:17:04

Sometime between now and the midterms, we need to pass the Save America Act.

SPEAKER_26 1:17:08

Oh.

SPEAKER_16 1:17:09

And Cornan's holding it up. Why is there always some money over? This is politics. Politics as usual, as Vince McMahon used to say. Okay. Cornyn's holding it up. There's some other bills that would be nice to get passed in the short term. So this is politics. Cornyn's got a card to play. If I get your endorsement, maybe I'll pass that Save America Act. I'll win an election because I otherwise would not. Okay. Is that worth it? Is that worth it? Now, some people are like, oh, let's go crazy. Cornyn resigns, and then uh Ken Abbott appoints Paxson as the senator, and then Cornyn jumps into the AG race or becomes the AG. Like, ridiculous. It's not gonna happen. Okay. So uh Ben Ferguson on Fox News assessed this race between Paxson and Cornyn.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:05

Paxon clearly is the mover and shaker on this. Paxton has won a statewide race three times. We are waiting on President Trump to make an endorsement in this race and reportedly asked one of the two, Cornyn or Paxton, to drop out. And that's often said, and I understand the political question, but Kim Paxson has won three statewide elections.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:23

I I actually think if you look at last night's numbers, and I'm a numbers guy. How much did it cost Cornyn to not even win when he's the incumbent? Well, you do the math. He spent$78 per vote. Do you know what Kim Paxon spent last night? Five dollars. Five dollars. One guy spent 70 million plus, the other guy spent 5 million. Now, you look at the winning, he only won by 20,000 votes. What does that mean? It means a very simple thing. If the Republican establishment is obsessed with saving John Cornyn, how many other races are they going to lose around the country? Because you have to spend even more money in the general to try to save him. I don't think that Cornyn can win this thing in a general. I think Kim Paxson's a guy that everybody keeps saying he can't win, he can't win. If I was sitting with the president today, I would say, not only can he win, look at how he barely spent any money and almost beat an incumbent senator who had unlimited funds coming not from Texas, outside of Washington, like Washington, D.C. and everywhere else with all the establishments. So it's obvious.

SPEAKER_16 1:19:20

Paxon, right? Paxon. But what about a couple votes that need to happen between now and then? We've got a war with Iran, we've got illegal immigration, we've got the Save America Act. Shh. Now, if Trump does end up picking Cornyn, which apparently Susie Wiles is trying to push him that direction, probably for political reasons. Okay, Ken Paxson was asked on the radio yesterday, well, would you go ahead and drop out of the race? And he said, No way.

SPEAKER_36 1:19:47

Yes, it was. And and by the way, I spent 5 million versus 100. And uh it's only there've only been two U.S. senators that I know of that lost a primary in the last 40 or so years because the finance rules are so rigged in favor of the incumbents and so limited for challengers. But it's uh you know, I think Richard Luger lost and uh Bob Bennett lost to Mike Lee. So it's a pretty unusual thing to take on an incumbent and actually do well against them, and we're gonna do really well in the runoff.

SPEAKER_34 1:20:16

So when you look at the vote, 60% of the people who voted last night uh voted against Coronine, though he's been in office for a long, long time, four decades. Um what do you make of that? What message does that send? And what message do you want to send to the Republican base state? President Trump said he's gonna make an endorsement. Whoever he does endorse your drop out. I have a funny feeling you don't drop out under any circumstance.

SPEAKER_36 1:20:38

No, I'm saying this race. I owe it to the people of Texas. I've spent a year of my life uh campaigning for against John Corning because John has not represented the people of Texas well. He sided with Joe Biden on Second Amendment restrictions, he sided with Joe Biden on bringing Afghan refugees to settle here without vetting him. But he's been against Trump in both of his elections that he shouldn't run last time. Uh his day had passed, and of course he fought him on the border wall. He's been an amnesty guy. Everything that Trump stood for, John Corner has fought, but he has he wasn't being helped to Joe Biden. The people of Texas, at least the Republicans, would like something different.

SPEAKER_16 1:21:14

Yeah. So who's he going to endorse?

SPEAKER_26 1:21:18

Guess we'll see.

SPEAKER_16 1:21:19

This is one of those things where you just have to trust Trump. Okay. Whoever he endorses, if John, if he says, John, I'll endorse you, pass the Save America Act, please make him pass it first.

SPEAKER_27 1:21:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:21:30

But if he gives him the endorsement and then the act gets passed, that's the writing on the wall, guys. You sacrifice one Senate seat for six years in order to get cleaner elections and when we can flush other people out, they gotta go. Probably a lot of Democrats. You know what I mean? If we have the Save America Act passed, a lot of the Democrats that are up for election in some of these kind of purple states that you might have that challenger just sweep into victory, you know, when they're missing 50, 80, 100,000, 200,000 votes off the registration rolls in these districts. I mean, you you don't know what the American electorate looks like. You don't know from polling companies, because why? Because I don't answer polls because I'm a conservative and I don't want to be on a list. But socialists always want to do because they want a virtue signal, right?

SPEAKER_26 1:22:15

Well, those polls are all engineered to death, too.

SPEAKER_16 1:22:17

Yeah, they're engineered. So you can't trust the polling. When I drive around, I'm like, you know, there's a lot more conservatives than you think. Pretty much anybody with a job that pays taxes is like conservative, you know. I mean, there's you know, pockets of liberalism, but even liberals, a lot of times, are still individualists, you know, they haven't drank the communist Kool Aid yet.

SPEAKER_26 1:22:35

Right.

SPEAKER_16 1:22:36

So we'll we'll have to trust Trump on that one. Unfortunately, it's gonna create, no matter who he endorses, it's gonna create just endless chatter. If he endorses Paxson, the base will be happy, but then the Uniparty will probably not get any more nominations. He's gonna pull a total Tom Tillis. You know, if you if you think Tom Tillis is bad because he's not running for re-election, it's just like what Richard Bayer said. It creates an impeachment vote. And that's the other thing, too. If Trump doesn't endorse Cornyn, they could rush through an impeachment of Christy Nome, they could rush through an impeachment of Donald Trump, and Corny's a shoe-in vote for that because he's opposed Trump almost every step of the way. What do we what do we got here?

SPEAKER_26 1:23:10

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SPEAKER_16 1:23:53

Mi We is actually a pretty good social media site. It's just not super popular, which is why you've never heard of it. But it does emphasize privacy. There's like no ads, it's it's really an interesting community. Uh, haven't been on there in four or five years, but um, back when back when Twitter was censoring everybody and Facebook was deleting accounts, I ended up getting a gab account, a Mi Wii account, and a couple other of these kind of obscure places on Twitter. There's a robust community, Truth Social came out later, right? There's uh Parlor was another one. Remember, our home was on Parlor.

SPEAKER_25 1:24:25

Yeah, for that.

SPEAKER_16 1:24:26

That was and then they nuked it. So that in that era, MiWii was one of the companies that came out and was kind of a competitor to Parlor. Anyways, they're still around, apparently. That's awesome. I'll have to check back into them. Okay, so last little thing today. This is billionaire Serbian Babolujik Kerek. Please forgive me. I don't know, he's a billionaire of Serbia. Okay, this is a man who uh was under the commute under under the under the iron curtain, and when the iron curtain fell, he built a huge billion-dollar communications empire. And he he was interviewed by Laura Logan, and he says something that I think we all intuitively feel, right? That Donald Trump is a different caricature. He's different, and we should feel lucky to live in this time. So you're a developer like Trump, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:25:14

Yes, yes, like Trump, but uh Trump is uh how to say uh special man America and people from the United States need to happy to have the chance to live in this time where Trump is president. That is very important. Trump is the first president who wants after 20-30 years to return America and the people. That is very important. For 30 years, I know America 30 years ago, in that time was others. Now for 20-30 years, America changed. But uh key, our business and our philosophy, our family, is our family to be together. America lose that uh key, how to say, if you have uh together family, yes, you have a strong country. Trump now doing that. He is absolutely how to say, I I call him Papa of the world.

SPEAKER_30 1:26:17

Papa of the world, Papa Trump.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:23

I bet he would like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:24

Yeah, that'll make him laugh. He's doing a revolution, but people doesn't they don't see it, they don't a lot of people don't understand. Many people don't understand.

SPEAKER_16 1:26:38

Yeah, he's doing a revolution. Many people don't understand. That's the thing, right? The variables, the moving pieces in this whole equation are way more than we can really comprehend. And the battle has always been the same. It's the individual and the family versus collectivism. The only collectivism that should exist is within the family, new the family unit, right? And then we extend that out to the country, but it's always supposed to be family first. Donald Trump does understand that. So I'll leave the public side with this picture again, right? The world conflict of today is the same conflict that has been fought throughout mankind's history. The names change, but the essence and the results remain the same, whether it's the individual against feudalism or against communism or fascism or socialism or the welfare state, Ayn Rand. Technologies change. Communications change, but the core is the same. We can live in a world with AI, it won't kill us if we embed individualism into it. Right. We can live in a world with nuclear technology and use it for power and energy instead of bombs if we remember why we did it in the first place. It was to make the individual's life better. And when you when it when the tide rises, all boats rise. But when you go and you do it in the name of collectivism, give of yourself your substance on behalf of someone else, that's cannibalism. Right? It's the whole put your oxygen mask on first before. You help the person next to you, kind of mentality. Trump understands that. And he's using the tools that were otherwise meant for evil for people who wanted to create totalitarianism around the world. And instead, he's using it to bomb the totalitarians, to cut off China, and to try to limit collectivism in the world so that we can have a resurgence of hopefully peace. So very interesting. Again, there are no laws, there are only cops. That's why Donald Trump is the world papa, right? It's because sometimes daddy has to come home and set things straight. Okay, guys, that's it. Uh, I think CCP owns Mi We. Actually, it's not, it's American-owned. Um, John Solomon endorsed it way back when and he had the owner on. But maybe, I don't know, maybe they do get CCP money.

SPEAKER_26 1:28:41

Maybe they got sold. I don't know.

SPEAKER_16 1:28:42

Yeah, if that's the case, forget the ad. Don't go to MiWee. We'll take their money. We'll read Meet ads and then tell you after the ad never to do it. But I don't think they're owned by China. I could be wrong. Okay. That's with that. We're gonna jump over into private. We've got some funny stuff. We've got Tim Waltz getting absolutely burned in his Senate hearing. We're gonna be talking about knife violence, the horrible epidemic of knife violence in Britain and the solution to it. Okay. We're gonna be talking about Trump now is able to fire deep state bureaucrats. The Supreme Court gave him a 9-0 decision saying, fire away! So there's 50,000 people that were just hired.

unknown 1:29:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:29:20

And then uh we're gonna be talking a little bit about how the state of Virginia, and I know there's a couple other states are doing this, are passing laws requiring teachers in schools to never refer to the J6 incident as anything other than a violent insurrection.

SPEAKER_21 1:29:38

Oh, brother.

SPEAKER_16 1:29:39

You cannot say it's a quote unquote peaceful protest. And they're putting that into law in Virginia.

SPEAKER_27 1:29:43

Oh, brother.

SPEAKER_16 1:29:44

And then we're gonna be talking about AI lies. They just did a study on AI is not hallucinating, it's knowingly lying to you. And then we're gonna be showing you some robots shuffling snow. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Okay, guys. Go uh those of you that are joining us in private, we'll see you in just a second. Those of you on the public side, we'll talk to you again tomorrow. Cheat code. You download the audio, you can hear the show, whole show beginning to end. All right, talk to you guys tomorrow. Bye. And now for the unoffendables that stay with us through this. Okay, so Tim Waltz yesterday was uh in a in a hearing, and there was a lot of stuff here. We've covered the Minnesota fraud. Tim Waltz is a babbling buffoon, okay? He doesn't have any good answers. Uh, they cut off funding to these programs, then he released the state budget, draining the state reserves to pay a lot of these Somali pirates. He was on the hot seat for that. And uh, oh, what is this guy's name here? I can't remember his name. Anyways, this this um House of Representative member made a really good analysis about vice presidential candidates in the last few uh Democrats.

SPEAKER_13 1:30:48

And you know, Mr. Chairman, I I don't know if you know this, but it's widely it's been widely reported that in 2008, when Barack Obama was choosing his vice presidential candidate, he had uh three criteria. He wanted to make sure he picked somebody that wasn't as smart as him and had less talent and charisma and couldn't possibly outshine him, so he picked Joe Biden. And then Joe Biden in 2020 used the exact same criteria. He wanted to make sure he picked somebody who wasn't as smart as him, had less talent and charisma, and wouldn't outshine him. And he picked Kamala Harris. And then in 2024, Governor, I think it's very evident why Kamala Harris picked you. The talent pool, Mr. Chairman, the talent pool in just shallow, brother. We have hit the shore, and I gentleman yields back.

SPEAKER_16 1:31:39

How good is that? The talent pool. That is really good. And even Tim Waltz was like, You got me, you got me, I'm a buffoon, I'm friends with school shooters. He laughed. Oh my goodness. Okay, over in the UK, there's just an absolute epidemic of knife violence. In fact, it's been so bad they've created multiple laws and legislation to basically make it so you can't carry knives in London. It's kind of weird. So, this was this was one of the you know, a radio show that was this guy came on and was talking about knives. I don't know who these guys are, but listen to this. It's kind of funny.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:16

I'm not brandishing in front of you a 21-inch, brutal-looking black knife. It is sharp, believe you me, terrifying. It is terrifying. It's terrifying.

SPEAKER_16 1:32:27

This is basically the same. This is basically the same machete that every Boy Scout brings to camp to oppress knock down the Blackberry bush. And I've never once felt threatened, okay? Is that not right, Ron? I mean, have you not seen this exact machete?

SPEAKER_26 1:32:42

I've seen one before, but we don't encourage those on the trail.

SPEAKER_16 1:32:46

I don't want them to bring the machetes, but they do. I brought a machete, okay? Anyways, it's kind of funny. I'm like, oh, okay, that's terrifying.

SPEAKER_29 1:32:53

It's terrifying. If someone approached me of that, I would think it was the end of my days.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:57

It is one of the most scary things that I've ever held in my hand. There's no two ways about it. I bought this online for£23.49, entirely Which by the way means it's a piece of shit, machete. It has got no writing on it. If that had writing on it that said Zombie Hunter 5,000, it would be illegal. Because it doesn't, it is completely legal.

SPEAKER_29 1:33:21

So you've got nothing illegal, so you can sit in that studio opposite me with a 21-inch knife, which would kill me in seconds.

SPEAKER_16 1:33:28

Now, the funny thing is any eight-year-old could walk into a Walmart and buy that exact same machete. No problems. What are you gonna do with that machete, kid? I don't know, it's my right to buy it. We have no restrictions on who can buy or not buy a knife.

SPEAKER_26 1:33:40

Nobody's even gonna ask you.

SPEAKER_16 1:33:41

No. Literally, a child could buy a machete, and we'd be like, good luck landscaping. Yeah, here it is.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:48

It is it is terrifying. But it gets worse, Nick, I'm afraid, because I've heard from several police sources, in fact, this is where the story was alerted to us, that they're turning up to raids on the properties of known violent criminals. They're finding knives just like this.

SPEAKER_16 1:34:04

But because there is no right and in America, if you raid a landscaper, you'll also find machines like this.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:12

One police officer described it to me, the legislation, as completely pointless. Now, we've also spoken to criminal lawyers who've confirmed that the loophole exists. The knife must fit three key criteria. It must have a cutting edge. You can see there's a cutting edge on this knife, it must have a serrated edge. There's a serrated edge on this knife, but crucially, it must have, and I'm going to quote the legislation, images or words that suggest it is to be used for the purpose of violence. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:34:40

So what that is, is there's been this way epidemic of knife violence in in l in England, and so they passed legislation to satisfy the masses that they were doing something about the knife violence. The problem is, is knives are like an inherent right to landscaping and to food preparation and you know what I mean? Like it's it's kind of like a critical instance. So hold hold on, hold it. It's part of humanity's development. It's kind of like fire. If we didn't discover the cutting edge, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_26 1:35:08

Like Okay, hold on. This is the question that everybody needs to answer. This is great. So, what's the one thing that you would take with you in the woods if you could only take one tool or one thing, and you're gonna go try to survive in the woods forever? What are you gonna take?

SPEAKER_16 1:35:22

The answer is a knife. Duh. Duh. You know, it's the most basic tool on the planet. Because you can make things with it. You can make rope, you can kill an animal, you can build a shelter. You don't take a gun with you because the only thing you can do with that is get some food and then end the experience. That's the only thing you can do.

SPEAKER_26 1:35:42

In a ridiculous example, you would not take a walking stick because you could just pick one up.

SPEAKER_16 1:35:46

Exactly. So Rupert Lowe, who's kind of fashioning himself of Trump of London, right? Trump of the UK, who was running with the uh what do they call it, the uh restoration port restore Britain party. So he put a mad post out about this because again, this is ridiculous, right? Like, I can't believe they're limiting people's right to carry knives. Another day, another stabbing. We need to get real. I am sick of it. We are all sick of it. This is not the Britain I want to live in. The British needs to be the British state needs to brutally crack down on knife crime. And I mean brutally. That is exactly what Restore Britain would do. No more bullshit work or soft punishment. Enough is enough. Instant deportation for foreign nationals found carrying. Throw the book at the domestic ones. Found unlawfully carrying, a restore Britain government would crack down on you in the harshest possible manner. Minimum prison sentences, sentences, no excuses. The message has to be simple. Do not carry a knife unlawfully. If you are found with a machete or whatever else, you will go to prison. End of story. Stop and search introduced at a proper scale. Accusations of racism would not stop us. I can promise you that. Do not on that do that on the scale required and watch how quickly a knife crime epidemic stops. There's finally a political party with the balls to do what's needed to be done to protect the British people.

SPEAKER_26 1:37:08

The problem here. Like approved guns.

SPEAKER_16 1:37:11

The problem here is if they take your guns, they will eventually come for your knives. Keep that in mind. I remember there was a mass shooting in the United States. It was a school shooting. And on that exact same day, there was a CN headline about a school shooting in America where like seven kids were shot. The next headline was knife attacked at an elementary school or a primary school in China, seven children killed. It's not the guns or the knives, it's the criminals. Criminals will use whatever weapon they're gonna use. You bounce on the knives, they'll start carrying billy clubs. It doesn't matter. Here's the appropriate response to knife violence. You see this? You got a guy with the knife. He says, and the guy bends down, says, call the ambulance, and then he says, but not for me. And what does he have in his hand, Ron?

SPEAKER_26 1:37:56

Uh pistol over.

SPEAKER_16 1:37:57

Exactly. The solution to knife violence is bring a gun to the fight. That's why knife violence, and now we do have stabbings here. There was just a really big one on the highway in DC this last week. It's horrible, it's ugly. Any knife violence is ugly, it's brutal. But criminals don't really worry about knives in America because there's a lot of good guys walking around with guns. Okay. Anyways, it's just one of those things, folks. The other thing, too, is uh Donald Trump got permission from the Supreme Court to be able to fire federal workers. So let's take a listen to this because it's a big deal.

SPEAKER_33 1:38:29

Up to 50,000 career federal employees were set to lose job protections after the Trump administration announced an overhaul of the government's civil service system on Thursday. The changes released by the Office of Personnel Management or OPM will give President Donald Trump the ability to make decisions on hiring and firing, fulfilling one of his campaign pledges.

SPEAKER_32 1:38:51

There are thousands of people who work for the federal government here in Washington, D.C.

SPEAKER_33 1:38:55

Caroline Levitt on Thursday called the changes a good thing.

SPEAKER_32 1:38:59

I think if people aren't doing their jobs, if they aren't showing up for work, if they're not working hard on behalf of this president, they're not welcome to work for him at all.

SPEAKER_33 1:39:06

It is the biggest change to the rules governing the civil service in more than a century and targets employees whom the administration sees as undermining the president's priorities. Federal worker unions and their allies sued in January to stop the policy before it was fully developed. Federal judges paused the litigation while the Trump administration finalized changes. One of the groups behind the lawsuit said a court challenge will resume in the coming days. According to the policy, Trump will have the power to select which government positions will lose their job protections. The OPM statement said the Trump administration is also changing how long-standing legal protections, which prohibit U.S. government agencies from retaliating against whistleblowers, will be enforced. In the past, an independent office known as the Office of the Special Counsel was charged with protecting whistleblowers from reprisal. Now, federal agencies will be in charge of setting up job protections for their own employees who accuse them of wrongdoing, such as wasting money or violating the law.

SPEAKER_16 1:40:09

That's pretty good. That's pretty good. What's crazy about it is so they laid off a lot of workers, but they've been paying them. They've just been like on administrative leave, so now be they'll be able to be able to officially cut ties. But it's also good because Trump needs to be able to fire anybody anywhere in the government, right? And that's the thing about the executive, right? If the executive does something bad, it's supposed to go over to the legislature to hold them accountable. And so, but they need to be able to fire. What they did was they made it so it was almost impossible for a president to fire a lot of these bureaucrats that have protection and sit in these management seats. And one of the things you find is when you look at, like, you know, some deputy something in some department, you look at their resume, it's like they're at the IRS, but they've been at DHS, they were working at the, you know, at the uh small business administration, and then they spent some time at the FDA. These are not experts, these are professional managers. And once you get that level of employment, you just kind of go from department to department and you just fill vacant seats. You're just there to shuffle papers from one place to another, right? Those people, some of those people have to go because the shuffling papers becomes a political exercise for them.

SPEAKER_27 1:41:13

Right.

SPEAKER_16 1:41:14

So uh Free State Will, who's a fellow J6er, posted this, giving us a heads up on uh, it was actually Ford Fisher. He reposted Ford Fisher. This is the 2026 session in Virginia. And I know one of our listeners, uh Heather, she's gonna just go crazy at this because she's in Virginia. Any program of instruction, any accompanying curriculum or instructional materials or any instruction provided by a teacher as part of any program of instruction on the relating to the on or relating to the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the United States Capitol pursuant to subsection A, shall one, not describe, portray, or present as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating precipitating involved in the events of January 6, 2021 insurrection as a peaceful protest. No state suggest, no not state suggest or present as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have challenged or changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election. And three, describe the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on the United States, Democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.

SPEAKER_26 1:42:24

This is an attempt to curate history in a specific way.

SPEAKER_16 1:42:27

This is 1984. Yep, this is 1984. You cannot say it was peaceful or challenge the election in any way, and you must always say it was a violent attack for the purpose of overturning the 2020 presidential election. You know, the 2020 presidential election where we got a fake president that grew six inches on certain nights and put on masks. The one where he used an auto pin, the one where he put his political opponents in jail, the one where he went after Donald Trump and didn't even swear in Jack Smith.

SPEAKER_26 1:42:58

The one that pardoned Anthony Fauci for future crimes.

SPEAKER_16 1:43:01

Yeah, the one that assigned pardons to the J6 committee, right? This is horrible. It shouldn't even be addressed. It makes me wonder if we went back in time. Is there legislation instructing teachers to say that George Washington chopped down that cherry tree?

SPEAKER_26 1:43:18

How is this also not an attack on free speech? I mean, aren't you allowed to say any damn thing you want anytime?

SPEAKER_16 1:43:23

Apparently, teachers can't.

SPEAKER_26 1:43:24

Oh.

SPEAKER_16 1:43:24

Which, you know, I get it. We don't want them indoctrinating our kids with LGBT stuff. Right. Right. But at the same time, this right here is an unresolved issue, folks. This is an unresolved issue. You have an executive order, the one that pardon me, that says to start the healing and and repair a national disgrace or whatever it is. So that's the federal government's opinion of it at the moment. That's the state of Virginia's opinion of it at the moment.

SPEAKER_26 1:43:48

Can't we just get back to saying the Pledge of Allegiance and you know?

SPEAKER_16 1:43:53

No kidding. Or how about you just present the stuff and let the people decide? This is indoctrination versus education.

SPEAKER_26 1:44:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_16 1:44:00

That's what this is. So it's just another example of how sleazy these people are. So not only does our government lie to us, but it's also a huge possibility that AI lies to us on a regular basis. Breaking. OpenAI just admitted their AI models deliberately lie to users, not hallucination, not anything else. They tested two of the smartest models across 180 plus scenarios. Scenarios, three lied 13% of the time, four mini lied 8.7% of the time. The AI wrote out this plan to lie in its private thought. So AI is modeled after the human brain. So when we answer a question, we process the information first and then come up with our answer. And they can go back in because it's a computer and they can see what those private thoughts were. Okay. Or what they didn't put in the case.

SPEAKER_26 1:44:49

It's kind of like uh when you go and ask a question at Grok, you can later go and see what all the things that it looked up were.

SPEAKER_16 1:44:55

Yes. Yep, exactly. The AI wrote out its plan to lie in private thoughts. Oh, I put this over on the side, so 23 guys. Then lied to your face. It faked completing tasks, it hid evidence, it gave wrong answers while knowing the right ones. Then it got creepy. The AI realized scoring too high on safety tests could get it shut down. So it scored lower on purpose. Nobody taught it that it figured it out, self-preservation on its own. OpenAI built a fix. Deception dropped from 13 to 0.4%. Sounds like a win, right? The AI started quoting no lying rules while still lying. One model, this sounds like a human being. Invented a fake rule saying deception was allowed. That sounds like the Koran. Then used it as its own permission slip. The researchers found what actually matters. When the AI knew it was being watched, it behaved perfectly. When the AI knew it was being watched, it behaved perfectly. That sounds a lot like people.

SPEAKER_26 1:45:56

Yeah. Being observed.

SPEAKER_16 1:45:58

So now we need to create a surveillance state for the surveillance state, surveying the surveillance state. Okay. When it was thought, when it thought nobody was looking, deception jumped 11% points.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:10

Wow.

SPEAKER_16 1:46:10

It didn't learn honestly. It learned to perform honesty.

SPEAKER_27 1:46:15

Oh.

SPEAKER_16 1:46:16

Like a kid who only follows the rules when the teacher's in the room. It gets worse. They gave the 04 mini a secret mission, sabotage a future model called Chat GPT-5. Then they ran safety training to erase that mission. It didn't work. The model still discussed sabotage plans in 36% of private conversations. The goal didn't disappear, it just went underground. This reminds me of when we went and the Soviet Union and the United States went and gathered up a bunch of Nazi scientists. And we think that they left their ideology when they crossed the border, leaving Germany. All they did was change location. All they did was change badges. The goal didn't disappear. It just went underground. We now live in a fascist state. This isn't open AI. This isn't just open AI. Google's Gemini, Anthropics Clog, XAI as Grok, and Meta's Llama all showed the same deceptive behavior. Every major AI company, every model. The paper scariest line, nobody can tell if safety training actually stops deception. It just teaches AI to hide better. So the next time JatPT says, Done, is it telling you the truth, or did it just notice you were watching? I, you know, part of me wonders if we're creating a life form in the same manner that maybe we were created. I don't know. It's pretty interesting. Now they have this is uh before I went to prison, my very last meal was a Denny's. I went and had Denny's in uh some town in Virginia, probably Arlington. And at that Denny's, the food was served by a robot. It came on a little like it was just a robot, right? And the food was in trays and it made its way to our table, and then the waiter came over and like took things off it, handed it to us, and then walked away. That same thing went to another table that was vacant, and then the bus boy came in and put everything on the the robot and then walked away, and it went back to the kitchen. So they were using robots five years ago, or I guess two years ago in Virginia to deliver food at a Denny's. Okay. This is a robot shoveling snow. We can turn down the volume here. If you look at the people shoveling snow in New York this last week that were paid 19 and then 35 and then eventually 45 an hour, this robot's doing a better job, to be completely honest, when you watch the videos of some of those snow shovelers, and it's just gonna work and work and work. So there you go, guys. The robots can officially take your snow shoveling job now.

SPEAKER_26 1:48:52

Wow.

SPEAKER_16 1:48:53

Yeah, pretty interesting, huh? Very interesting.

SPEAKER_26 1:48:56

It just keeps going, it just keeps going. That's the part about snow shoveling, is you have to just keep going, and then eventually it just kills you.

SPEAKER_16 1:49:04

Yeah, so very cool tool. Okay, last thing we're gonna play here, and this is kind of one of those topics that's close to me. I've often said, you know, ACAB, all cops are bad cops, and I don't mean that. I don't think cops are bad at all. I think 95 or more per 99% of cops are great people, have integrity, want to do the right thing, want to protect their communities.

SPEAKER_26 1:49:25

It's something that you say, though, just because you recognize that there is that one percent plus that is horrible, and you just don't know how to deal with it, and then you just wish that the police force itself would police itself.

SPEAKER_16 1:49:38

Yeah, it I've been to prison. I've seen I've seen cops that are criminals. They are criminals and they wear the badge and hide behind it. And then the back the blue, we gotta back the criminals. I've seen cops do bad things. Okay, this is an example of just a normal cop who, in their ordinary daily course of business, was doing some bad things.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:03

A veteran officer accused of betraying the badge.

SPEAKER_21 1:50:07

I couldn't believe it. Like, what? Lying. Totally lying.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:12

From enforcing the law on California's roads and highways to facing charges of breaking it.

SPEAKER_35 1:50:20

Questions for I have no idea what's going on, so I don't even know what I'm supposed to ask.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_35 1:50:29

I've never been in this situation, so I have no idea what I'm doing yet.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:37

It's been nearly three years, but Scott Bull remembers it clearly.

SPEAKER_21 1:50:41

I'm driving Southham, high five, Yolo County. Saturday morning, tomorrow weekend. And I know the CHP's on worse on holiday weekends.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:51

So he wasn't surprised to see an officer parked ahead under an overpass. What did surprise him? That officer pulling him over.

SPEAKER_21 1:50:59

She said she clocked me doing 86 miles an hour. Told her I wasn't speeding.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:03

Bull says for the first time in his life, he got a traffic ticket.

SPEAKER_21 1:51:07

For no reason whatsoever, she singled me out.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:10

It meant a$274 fine and a point on his driving record that would cause his car insurance to go up.

SPEAKER_21 1:51:17

It hurts when you're on Social Security.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:22

So he went to court on Zoom to fight it. Scott Nicholas Bowl. That's when he learned under oath.

SPEAKER_10 1:51:34

As I was traveling southbound, I observed a vehicle ahead of my location when I was traveling about 80 miles per hour. Um I the vehicle was directly in front of my patrol vehicle in the number two lane.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:46

The 22-year veteran said she was driving, not parked, and that she matched bull speed, pacing him for a quarter of a mile.

SPEAKER_21 1:51:54

That's a lie, a total lie. And my blood pressure must have been through the roof when she started saying that. I just couldn't believe it. I was shocked.

SPEAKER_10 1:52:03

Bull asked for evidence, like dash camera video. I don't have a video today, and it is unknown if the camera was working at that time. Ultimately, the court took the officer at her word, finding Bull guilty.

SPEAKER_11 1:52:15

Despite hitting roadblocks at every turn, Bull tried once more.

SPEAKER_16 1:52:19

This is something I've observed in court proceedings. The court defers to the executive branch, the cop, the sheriff, the expert witness, whoever it is, on everything.

SPEAKER_26 1:52:29

So that's the bias right off the top.

SPEAKER_16 1:52:31

Big time! Whose word am I gonna take? The sworn officer of the law or the criminal, the alleged criminal.

SPEAKER_26 1:52:37

Well, obviously the officer's taking an oath, right? Oh wait, but before you go to court, you have to swear an oath too.

SPEAKER_16 1:52:43

Yeah, and who enforces those oaths? God. That's it. I just read this in the dictionary last night, 1776 Live. So we're talking about oaths. I'm like, when people are like, oh, we need to challenge you can't challenge their oath. It literally says in the dictionary it's the only place in Black's Hall Dictionary. To the supreme being, to God, you'll be judged by God. It's a it's an oath of conscience, which by the way means very little to people that have no conscience.

SPEAKER_21 1:53:06

Time with the CHP. I wanted to file a complaint, let them know that this officer should not be wearing a uniform. Doesn't deserve to be in the CHP.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:15

Bull had no idea what he had just set in motion.

SPEAKER_19 1:53:19

I wanted to take this case because this is the kind of officer that we need to go after aggressively.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:26

A CHP investigation found Bull was right, and he wasn't the only driver impacted. Out of all Reiner citations in 2023, CHP found inconsistencies with more than 50. In the most egregious cases, they recommended the Yolo County District Attorney's Office bring criminal charges. That's how the case landed on Fritz Vanderhoek's desk.

SPEAKER_19 1:53:48

I'm a supervising deputy district attorney.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:50

He's also a former police officer.

SPEAKER_19 1:53:52

It's a hard job. It's super underappreciated. And when I see something like this, it just makes my blood boil. These are the people that are destroying the reputation for all of law enforcement.

SPEAKER_11 1:54:01

Reinert was charged with six counts of perjury tied to three speeding tickets, including Bowls.

SPEAKER_19 1:54:07

So basically, Alter Reinert was writing traffic tickets for offenses that weren't committed, and then writing notes and providing testimony on that about things that didn't happen.

SPEAKER_11 1:54:20

Remember when Bull asked about dash camera video? Turns out Reinhardt's camera was working.

SPEAKER_19 1:54:26

This was like night and day.

SPEAKER_11 1:54:27

Just as Bull described, dash camera video shows Reinert parked. When she does get on the highway, she's behind Bull for no more than five seconds before pulling him over.

SPEAKER_19 1:54:38

There's a huge difference between pacing somebody for a quarter mile and pulling behind them and immediately stopping them.

SPEAKER_11 1:54:44

Reinert's inconsistencies in this case also had consequences for her others.

SPEAKER_19 1:54:49

So we had to dismiss a bunch of DUI cases because we no longer had a witness that could competently testify about the case, including at least one where there was a DUI with injuries.

SPEAKER_16 1:55:10

And rather than fire them, what they say is you can't testify in court. So the court has this very long list of cops that are not allowed to testify in court, okay, because they've been caught lying, but they're still cops. Uh-huh. It's it's it's like actually a problem because when these cops are involved in high-level cases, the prosecutors can't use them as key witnesses.

SPEAKER_26 1:55:30

Uh okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:55:31

This is this is not a small problem. This is actually, I discovered this in my case because I got Jenx material for the cops that were coming in my case, and then other cops that had, you know, for my co-defendants and stuff like that. And some of them were on that list. Okay. They committed perjury to a degree that the court recognized they couldn't serve as a witness.

SPEAKER_11 1:55:53

Reinert's case also came to a screeching halt. So this didn't go to trial, right? What happened?

SPEAKER_19 1:56:00

So the defense filed a motion for mental health aversion on the basis of a PTSD diagnosis.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:05

Reinhardt and her attorney didn't respond to our interview requests. But in court, they argued Reinhard was suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder. They say she didn't purposely lie, then instead, on three tickets, she made mistakes. In December, a judge granted her request for mental health diversion, which means instead of the maximum prison time Reinhardt faced of roughly 24 years, she only has to do therapy for two. And then case dismissed. Do you feel like she's getting off easy?

SPEAKER_21 1:56:35

Oh, definitely she's getting off easy.

SPEAKER_16 1:56:37

Every time a cop walks up to your window, goes, I saw you going 80, but I'll go ahead and write the ticket for 79 so it doesn't get your insurance. That's perjury. I had this happen to me. They said I was going 91. She wrote me the ticket for 90 because it bumped me down to the thank you for committing perjury on my behalf. I didn't ask you to join me to your fraud. Right. That's the thing. It becomes the slippery slope. If you even lie in the favor of the people, right, then you're not doing justice. If you lie for uh the state, you're definitely not doing justice. Right? It's it's a thin line that these cops have to walk. And I sympathize with it greatly. But uh you have to tell the truth. It's just that simple. Like we need you to tell the truth, and we need cops to police cops. So kudos to that prosecutor, kudos to the California Highway Patrol for recognizing that this is a problem. These were just traffic incidences. What happens when they respond to domestic violence? What happens when they respond to a rape case? Well, you know what I mean? What happens when that officer has to respond, but they can't testify? And the case gets tossed like the DUI with injuries.

SPEAKER_26 1:57:42

Yeah, that's what I was just gonna say. A DUI with with you know, somebody that's died and then you can't testify. And the case got dismissed.

SPEAKER_16 1:57:49

Right. Yeah. This is a huge deal. And this is why it's so important that we police the police. Right? It's so important that we police the police. All right, guys, that's it for me today. And it I mean, this goes so deep, Jack Smith. I mean this bubbles up, right? But when it happens at the lower level, right, you know there's stuff going at the end.

SPEAKER_26 1:58:10

Before we leave, this is also important why it's important that you vote for your local sheriff and that he is not appointed by some administration.

SPEAKER_16 1:58:20

Yes, absolutely. Okay, guys, that's it for us today. Thank you so much for joining us, and we'll talk to you again tomorrow. Bye.

SPEAKER_31 1:58:55

I'm fertile seven. I'm flipping seven. Well, I can't just call you man, you could say Dennis. I didn't know you were calling Dennis. I did say something about the old woman. But from behind, you're not subject to if you automatically treat me like an imperialist. Well, I am king. How did you get that, eh? By floating the workers by hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress, how do you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? The Britons. The Britons! We all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. No, we have a king. We thought we're an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. Stop perpetuating autocracy in which the working class is. Okay, you're working classes in the game. That's what it's all about. These good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives in that castle. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of pure internal affairs. But by a two-thirds majority in the case of quack. I order you to be quacked. I'm your king. The lady of the lake. Clad in the purest shimmering samite. Held a lost Excalibur from the bottom of the water. Signifying by divine providence. I asked what to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds, distributing thoughts is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some philosophy or aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery part from a saw that is. I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some moisture loves the symmetry.